In this chapter we explore liveability as a key method of engaging queer geographies. Speaking across Ireland and India, we focus on equalities legislations and marriage equality petitions to look at imaginations of liveability in juridico political spaces. In doing so, we both use and refuse a purely critical approach based on homonormative theorisations emerging from North America. We instead deploy a transnational framing that refuses comparisons to focus on understanding and developing theoretical insights. In doing so, we show how the liveabilities of LGBTQIA+ identifying lives is a central consideration for geographies that seek to move beyond normativity, but also refuse absolutist takes on rights-based legislation.